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INTIMATIONS

THE BONGKONG DALLY

to a solution of the trouble of the Green Island Cement Company. The third class of Minerais defined in the law includes: "alates, Bmestone, sandstone, granite, marbles, earthy lime, marle, clay-bod fireclay and all other kinds of stone cut out

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but there is a further clause relating to the working of this class of minerals which looks very much like withdrawing with the left hand a gift given with the right. It reads: "With regard to the Minerals specified in Class 8 Article VL, the landlord of the area where the mins (or quarry) is

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to others for operation; but a petition. should first be sent to the senior local officials for approval, and before approving such petitions the senior local officials must first refer them to the Chief of the Mining Supervision Bureau." What is not clear in the law is whether a Company composed of Chinese and foreigners may legally buy outright the area in which they wish to operate. The law speaks only of securing the mining rights," and in the qualifying clause we have quoted the draughtsman would seem to have contrived to give to the

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MARCH 25m, 1914.

THE ARMY AND HOME RULE. TELEGRAMS.

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AN AFFRAY ON A STEAMER.-

At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, a butcher employed on the Pacific Mail steamor Nile, J. Fremont Chamberlain by namo, vas charged with maliciously wounding a carpenter named Gust Anderson, employed on board the vessel, on Thurs day.

DISCUSSIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

THEIR BRIGADE

CAVALRY OFFICERS REJOIN

"UNCONDITIONALLY" THE PREMIER SAYS.

THROUGH BROYER'S AGKWOY]

were

(THROUGH RELITE'E AQHMOY)}

VOLUNTEERS CONGRATULATE THE 18TH LANCERS. According to the Belfast papers the Dungannon Volunteers have wired to the 18th. Lancers congratulating them on the firm atand they lind made in prevent- ing the loyal minority of their country-

LONDON, March 24th. Dr Balfour ridiculed the efforts men from being wiped out. The House of Commons was arowded of Mr. Asquith to minimise what

CONFERENCES AT THE WAR had happened in the Army, and and excited when it mot to-day, in

OFFICE declared that the instructions

Prior to the discussion in Parliament, oxceptation of a debate on the crisis in meant against Ulster. General Gough General Sir Arthur Paget conferred Ireland. Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd resigned under that impression and with the Secretary of State for War, George, Mr. Benar Law, and Mr. Balfour had been dismissed because he did Colonel J. E. B. Becly, at the War Office. were all given ovations

not went to fight against Ulster, and had where General Gough and other Irish been re-instated after saying that he officers and several Aldershot officers also - would not fight against Ulater. (Loud called.

choorn). Mr. Balfour concluded by say- ing that the Government were dealing Defendant pleaded guilty, saying that

General Bir Arthur Paget, the Officer with a question deeper than ordinary he acted in self-defence.

Inspector Gordon told his Worship that | Commending the Troops in Ireland, that problems. They had raised forces and went to see the King. He had an WHISKY. existing landlords perpetual right to the art about midnight on Thursday the they could not serve in certain ovental nothing could pacifyy except broad, audience insting for thres-quarters of an statesmanlike treatment, which, up to the hour, and returned to the Cabinet, which present, they had not attempted to adopt. was evidently awaiting the result,

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald and others

His Majesty also gave an audience to General Sir Arthur Paget.

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land and the right to squeeze the mining Company at his pleasure. We may be Our Celebrated Every old doing the framers of the law an injustice in Liqueur Scotch Whisky is saying this, but the layor at least the transistion we have seen-strikes us as a blend of the best Pot being somewhat ambiguous on points of Distilled Scotch Whiskies. vital importance to investors, who will be It is of great age, very fine, well advised, before embarking on mining enterprises under this law, to thoroughly and mellow. Its superior

sssure themselves through their Consule quality has established itsre-regarding the security of their tenure. If putation for over 30 years as the Company can acquire the land and thus THE LEADING SCOTCH become the landlord, then all difficulties which the wording of the law suggests WHISKY IN THE EAST, is; while if a mining Company can merely acquire mining rights and has then to make arrangements with a Chinese landlord to work the quarries the Company will need to be extremely careful in the preparation of its leass, if in the circumstances it is prepared to enter into one. It is important to point out that no such restriction applies to mining

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for what we may call first-class ninerale→→ gold, silver, lead, antimony, coal, etc. In this case, those who have first petitioned for operation shall have preferential right, respective of whether the applicants are landlords or not," so that some special significance must attach to the different proviso in regard to quarrying for limestone, alate, etc.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter on their yacht Niagara were expected to sail from Manila yesterday for Hongkong.

Application for leave to appeal will be made at the Supreme Court on Friday in connection with the recent judgment in the Shawan Tomes action. -

The Laertes, on the way up from Saigon, passed close to the North Reef of the Paracels and those on board observed that the German steamer which was wrecked there some months ago is rapidly being stripped.

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defendant complainant, with one

Colonel Seely, the Secretary of State for War, made a statement in which he said that some of the officers had informed

or two others, were playing a game of itica. There had been a misunderstand- cards on heard the Nile. Complainant, ing, and these officers had been ordered according to the evidence, was apparently

under the influence of liquor. There was to rejoin their unite. The movement of a quarrel about money matters, and the troops into Ulster was solely to protect men stopped playing cards. The defer- dant returned to his quarters, and was followed by the complainant, who pulled

His Worship-Is is quite clear that there was the very greatest provocation in this case, and I propose to take that into consideration.

arms and ammunition

opportunity for discussing the situation, Mr. Bonar Law insisted upon an

and the Prime Minister assented,

continued the debate, the Labour leader remarking that officers were prepared to shoot Trade Unjonists but would not shoot Ulsterman because of class bias

Mr. Morrell pointed out that the quee- tion whether or not General Gongh had returned to Ireland on certain terms had not been answered, and he asked Colonel Seefy for an answer.

Col. Seely did not reply.

Most of the Liberal back-benehers

A full meeting of the Cabinet was held after the War Office conferences.

Colonel Seely left the Cabinet meeting

Unusual crowds have assembled in Downing-Street, OFFICERS AT ALDERSHOT READY TO RESIGN General Gough's brother John, station- ed at Aldershot, has resigned.

It is reported that a number of other Aldershot officers are in readiness to resign if ordered to Ireland.

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the former out of his hunk shortly after wards. Anderson was then taken away by other witman, but ret

returned, and pressed the defendant down in his bunk.

Mr. Asquith rose smid great cheering Defendant had the small pen-knite pre- and said the Generals were informed duced on his bunk, and apparently last December that it might be their duty turned round and stabbed the complain to come to the assistance of the civil ant, who was taken to the hospital, but

power, but that officers domiciled in had since returned to duty,

Ulster would be exempted. The War accused the Opposition of seducing the Sir Edward Carson will prolong his stay in Ulster, and says he will keep Offics gave General Paget no instructions Army from their allegiance

Mr. Asquith concluded the discussion steadily preparing against coercion. concerning conquering Ulster. The only r

FUNDS IN AID OF ULSTER Law's instructions seat to the General were those by saying that Mr. Bonar

Sir Marcus Samuel has offored £10,000 last week for the movement of troops. The doctrine had brought up new

___and pointed out that if to start a fund in aid of the families of Premier reiterated that this was purely protective The Government did not soldiers were to apprise the value of the officers who have resigned. Inspector Gordon said he questioned intend to order any further movement, the different measures under the Constitu- very much if a doctor's bill would be sent It was an undoubted fact that General tion then the whole fabric of the State in. Dr. Jordan, the port doctor, might Gough and other officers interpreted their would be dissolved. or might not. The doctor might send it instructions in the wider sense. The to the Company,

Finally, the adjournment was negatived Asquith, refuses the Referendum, I will as the Company

give £20,000 to help Ulster in the fight" employed the port doctor. If it was sent Army Council were now satisfied that there and the matter dropped.

BELFAST QUIET. DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF to the complainant it would be up to him was a misunderstanding. The officers were to

The Company guaranteed also satisfied, and had returned to their

LORDS. commands.

His Worship asked defendant if he

was propar d to ay the doctor's bill f

one was sent in, or if his friends were

prepared to pay it for him.

pay hospital expenses.

His Worship-Taking into considera tion the very great provocation, I think justice will be satisfied if I order you to pay a fine of $25 or a moath's imprisonment,

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One Unionis asked-Is General Gough to be reinstated?:

danger,

In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne

The wealthy Melbourne pastoralist, Mr. Horsfall, Cabled to Sir Edward Carson :—– "Since my fellow-Yorkshireman, Mr.

Belfast is quite caim. The bluejackets are fraternising with the Volunteers.

The only excitement in Belfast yester- During Mr. Asquith's speech there were duelt on the grave public anxiety con- day was that crowds were in the streets numerous pointed interjections.

cerning events in Ulster, and asked if the reading the special editions of the papers Government intended to overco

the containing reports of the debate in the Unioniste.

House of Commons. ULSTER VOLUNTEERS ON GUARD. Interest attached lo, the first ap- pearance in the streets of the Ulster Volunteers, who, in military khaki uniform, were marching to take up their. guard at Craigavon, where Sir Edward. Carson is staying

Lord Morley replied similarly to Mr. Mr. Asquith replied that there was no

of reinstatement question

because Asquith and Colonel Seely in the House General Gough had never been dismissed of Commons. He mentioned that the Mr. Boaar Law interposed with the King had approved of the order to the remark that his successor was actually officers to rejoin the units, mentioned.

Mr. Asquith said that that was pond- ing General Gongh's explanation. Beth General Gough and all the officers con-

Some Unionists queried Uncondition

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CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE P&O

Mr. Asquith-Certainly:

PRESS COMMENTS.

The Conservative papers are waxing

There were the usual parades and drilla

jubiliant at what they describe as the at the Curragh yesterday under the Com-

verner had now returned to the Brigade, Government's abject climb-down from manding Officers, including some of those

coercive demonstration in Ireland to who had previously resigned. humiliating explanations in the House JAPANESE POLITICAL CRISIS. of Commons, because the instrument PARLIAMENT PROROGUED BY IMPERIAL EDICT, which they had thought to use broke in Mr. Bonar Lav affirmed that the

their hands. They also acclaim General

TOYO, March 24th. danger of the Army being destroyed Gough as the man of the hour, and before their eyes came on the Government pay a tribute to the band of men who like a bolt from the blue. He said that saved the country from disaster. The same papers also declare that Home Rals 18 dead

The

An Imperial Ediet has been suddenly: issued proroguing Parliament, which is debating the Navel acandals. prorogation means a loss of £6,500,000 to the Navy, as the former Budget now becomes operative.

DISASTROUS FIRE IN BOMBAY BOMBAY, March 24th.

A feature of the celebration of St. Patrick's Day in the Philippines was a cablogram from Mr. John Redmond, the Irish Leader. The message came from London to Father MeErlain, Agustinian Monastery, Manile, and was as follows:- **Irish people and Irish party scad heartiest greetings to Friendly Sons of HONGKONG, Manca 25, 1914. St. Patrick for Saint Patrick's Day."

Information has reached a Ceylon resident by 8 private letter from an THE recent amendment of the mining laws

Telegraphic news has reached the East authoritative source at Home, says the nothing could save the Army now except

Times of Cegion, that Sir Walter Lawrence. in China is an attempt apparently to meet of the death at Portsmouth, England, of is about to ko appointed Chairman of the a clear declaration that the officers of foreign criticism of the illiberality of the Mr. Alfred James Hadley, late of the Board of Directors of the P&Q, Com the Army and Navy would not be con The Morning Post urges the House of original draft. While the right was granted Chinese Maritime Customs: The deceased, pany If this is true it shows that Six pelled to engage in civil war against Lords to amend the Army Annual Act so Thomas Sutherland has made up his mind to foreignére to engage in mining enterprises who was well-known in most of the China to retire very suddenly. It will be their wish

He declared emphatically as to prevent the Army being used in in China, in co-operation with Chinese, the coast ports, joined the Customs service in remembered that he gave no hint of such that the Government were attempting to Ulster, as the Government, though tem original draft provided that the holdings 1576-37 years ago He was about 55 an intention at the annual meeting of the of foreign shareholders should not exceed years of age and leaves a family in Company Sir Walter Roper Lawrence coerce a portion of the United Kingdom

entered the Indian Civil Service in 1877, 40 per cent, of the total. As am aded, be frit. In October, 1910, he was Secretary to the Punjab Government and The Opposition Leader went on to read Shanghai for whom much sympathy will having passed brat. He rose to be Under without the authority of the electorate the law allows foreigners to hold 50 per cent of the stock. The reader who appointed Chief Appraiser in Shanghai, later to the Goverment of India. He a statement by General Sir Arthur Paget sequainted with the terms of the Oil in April of last year he went home ment of Inhain 1869. Later in to the officers, in which it was stated that the failure of the Tory attempt to cause Chihuahus, who was ordered to investi Concession recently granted by the Chinese

on six months leave of absence. On his distinguished career he was private secre active operations were to

commence a split in the Army. They also declare Government to the Standard Oil Company Swatow where he became ill with cancer pains of Wales for the Indian tour in would be ablaze by - Saturday,

revarn in October he was transferred to tary to Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India,

1996-1903. He was Chief of Staff of the against Ulster, and that the country that the limit of patience has been of New York will probably at once wish to of the throat, and on the advice of his 1908.

Het recebed point out that in this case the contractdical attendant, the Shanghai Mercury

The Daily Ners says that if the Army. allows the foreign company to acquire a

28 to be used as a Tory institution to predominating interest (vis, 55 per cent.)

coercende, House of Commons the Liberals the enterprise. It is therefore necessary

mist democratise it as the democratized Balt

Parliament.

to mention that petroleum, like

is specially excluded from the Mining Taw

as being Government monoponta. ""to be developed by the State. On the uplo

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returned home for treatment condition was so critical, however, that to gradually becama. worse and died.

CHOLERA CASES

was Officiating Secretary to the Govern. ----

AN ECHO OF THE CANTON CONCURRENCY TRAUD,

DEATH OF OMB DO THE ACCUBED

Canton Paper Currency Scandal, in.

accased the Cabinet of moving the troops in order to provoke or intimidate Ulster, and asked whether General Gough had been reinstated. He demanded to know

A fire at the docks destroyed 60,000

porarily forced to hold its hands, might bales of cotton, valued at £600,000. only be biding its time.

The Liberal papers say that the fact that Mr. Asquith is stall the Premier indicates

The Daily Chronicle says that it would

THE EXECUTION OF MR BENTON.

NEW YORK, March 24th. Mr. Perceval, the American Consul at

gate the shooting of Mr. Benton, reports that no pistols were used

in the fight which ended in the death of Mr. Benton, who went unarmed to see General Villa.

THE VANCOUVER MINERS STRIKE

IMPRISONMENT FOR LEADERS-

VICTORIA, B.C.. March 24th.

The miners of Vancouver who took part

Kiyondo Nishiyama, one of the Japanese what instructions were given to General accused of complinity in the notorious Page. He maintained that General have been much more agreeable to the in the August disturbances were sentenced which Dr. Logs, ex-Director of the Police Paget did not agree with Mr. Asquita Liberals it the offending officers had been Affairs Burten, was implicated, is that the Government were only taking seat about their haine The Govern in the Tokye Hospital, in Hongo, where precautionary measures, but thought he went bad delayed too long in dealing reported to Lavo. died on the 11th instant he has for some time been a pati

It be recalled that immediately on

were going to conquer Ulster.

with indisciplinolning b

THE NATIONALISTS QUIET

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to-day The leader, Joo Angelo, was sentenced to four years, and eight others towyears imprisonment.

Forty Obora were bound over because they pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly.

OBITUARY.

Since the passengers on the On Sang that "half a loaf is better than to bread " have been placed on the quarantine junks foreignersatus of sngaging in miningsrenteen cases of cholera have been enterprise in line will doubtless welcome discovered, and of this number ten had the 50% con path, and we have u doulit, proved fatal up to yesterday. The out will hold from Hongkong, les affirmed that he completely accepted the now that theserviced mining laws have been break was not discovered until the Onyea, Nishiyama was arrested and taken premier's good faith, but believed thus, promulgated by the PRESIDENT, foreigners Seng was a day from Hongkong. All the Tokyo Chine Sabansho, where he will be found ready to co-operate with the passengers upon arrival at Hongkong | was examined by the Court offozala. He without Mr. Asquith's knowledge, some Chinese in the development of the great were placed on quarantine junks under was, however, found to be in an advance of his colleagues made these movements announcel their determination to bold a mineral wealth of China. Incidentally it police patrol, and frequent visits have age of consumption, and was suben-

possible that the new nw might lead been made by the harbour medical officerfusatly released and seat to Hospital of the troops part of a concerted plan muster which Mr. John Redmond strong Thongs Edward Gordon, K.0.LE.

Japan Gazette

against Ulster.

The Nationalists at Derry, who

ly deprecated, finally abandoned their intention,

LONDON, March 24th.

The death is announced of General Bir

K.C.B., an Indian Mutiny veteran.